TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C16 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of the SmartGAP user’s guide. SmartGAP is a scenario planning software tool that synthesizes households and firms in a region and determines their travel demand characteristics based on their built environment and transportation policies. SHRP 2 Capacity Project C16 has also released has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled 'The effect of smart growth policies on travel demand' that explores the underlying relationships among households, firms, and travel demand. The report also describes a regional scenario planning tool that can be used to evaluate the impacts of various smart growth strategies on travel demand. A zipped version of the SmartGAP software is available for download at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/shrp2/SmartGAP.zip. SWOV users also see http://bibliotheek.wp.swov.nl/pdfs/SmartGAP. (Author/publisher)
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